Amid Meaning

"At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast." — 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

"The resulting social divisions can seem so "real" and "natural" to those living amid them that there is a strong tendency to believe that they are timeless biological or scientific facts, rather than social facts that have been assembled and built up through human effort." — 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 141:

"Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game." — 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:

"In Osaka, the big action scenes take place with arrows as well as swords, amid glass display cases holding samurai costumes, a classic Wick setting." — 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC: